by Erin
We finally did it. We got the Internet at the Center. Don’t let yourself think it was painless, though. We had to make two trips to the Orange (telecom) office in Mbour. Less than 1% of Senegalese people have credit cards, which meant handing over $200 in cash to pay for the modem and installation of the phone line. When they finally came, they installed the phone line taf-taf-taf. But these men who could scale a telephone pole and string a line through a concrete wall in fifty minutes couldn't get it through their heads that “if you leave that way you’ll get stuck.” In the end, we all lost an hour of our lives helping them maneuver their truck out of the sand. Well, as they say, "the Internet heals all wounds."
